On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 21:52 -0500, Josh Boyer wrote: > On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 20:27 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: > > Max Spevack (mspevack@xxxxxxxxxx) said: > > > Would like to open up a few of these questions for some input from you > > > guys. This is not a replacement for a larger draft of the answers -- this > > > is just as I work on some of the other questions, here's a few that I > > > can't answer alone. > > > > evince is linked against libnautilus-extension. It's entirely possible > > that that could be split out of nautilus proper, I suppose. > > That answers the example, not the question. Even on fedora-devel, we've > been getting "why does it pull in umpteen packages as dependencies for > foo?" > > I don't think this is attributed to yum/rpm really. Maybe it's simply > how gnome and it's applications are packaged. > or, it's a function of how gnome and it's applications are written. I don't think the gnome or kde developers really expect you to just install a single application. They expect you to have the whole kit and kaboodle (or git and gaboodle :-D) and go from there. Is that an unreasonable answer? -sv _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board-readonly mailing list fedora-advisory-board-readonly@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board-readonly
